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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards defends actions following Ronald Greene's death in police custody

Gov. John Bel Edwards says he did nada to prevent justice from being served.

This week, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards expressed his sympathy for the family of Ronald Greene -- who died while in police custody in May 2019 -- simply he also continuously defended his deportment following Greene's death.

"I accept never told anyone public or private that Mr. Greene died in a car wreck," Edwards said. "I have never asked, directed or otherwise caused anybody to alter, delay, change, modify any you want to say about the investigation."

Edwards' comments at a press conference in Baton Rouge came after a study that he was notified, within hours of Greene'due south death, that the 49-year-old Blackness man had been involved in a brutal struggle with police force. Despite knowing that, the report alleges, Edwards never publicly questioned the law'due south much dissimilar public story that Greene had died in a machine crash.

Edwards said several times during the press conference this week that he will not make whatever excuses for his deportment. He likewise said that no family should e'er have to feel what the Greene family has experienced and continues to go through. "I think we have to acknowledge racism when we run across it. I think nosotros have to make sure that nosotros phone call it what information technology is," the governor said.

Edwards denied that he delayed or interfered with the investigation.

"There are implications that I knew more or that one or more of my staff members tried to encompass upwards what happened. I will say that that is simply and categorically false," he said. "It is sad. It is regrettable that I am here nether these circumstances talking nigh these things. But unfortunately, it is unavoidable. Simply we can practice better. We must do meliorate."

Concluding May, the Associated Press published trunk photographic camera footage of Greene'due south arrest. The video showed state troopers punching and using a stun gun on Greene after he crashed his car post-obit a pursuit in northern Louisiana on May x, 2019.

Greene's mother, Mona Hardin, claimed Edwards lied virtually the abort to the media, and said she is tired of the disrespect.

"This language of us talking most the unfairness that everyone'due south all all of a sudden attacking John Edwards, it's another slap in my confront that he tin can say that and in the same breath say he's sorry, what happened to Ronnie was horrific," Hardin said. "But at first he made every effort to accept the blame off of his troopers."

"Anybody has to be held answerable -- arrest and jail time," she said. "I'm talking most serious jail time. Nosotros're not talking about a few months."

Hardin said the family is still looking for answers from the governor and she volition proceed to endeavor to get justice for her son.

"I would love for the day that somebody would simply say 'Hey, let'south fix this, enough is enough.' I would love for someone to put the brakes on this, because if they don't, when volition it stop? When will it terminate?" Hardin said. "My son, I miss him and then much. And all I can say is I cannot rest and I will non rest until someone pays for his murder. And my son was murdered. He was beaten to death with no mercy."